A brief introduction to the origin and customs of the Dragon Boat Festival (about 50 words)

Dragon Boat Festival: Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional festival in China, is a time to eat zongzi, race dragon boats, hang calamus and drink realgar wine. Dragon Boat Festival is the first festival in China to be selected as a world intangible cultural heritage.

There are many legends about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, but in the long selection and elimination, the legend commemorating Qu Yuan is the most popular and popular. "His ambition is honest, but his behavior is cheap". Starting from Sima Qian's affectionate description of Qu Yuan, the image of Qu Yuan's loyalty to the monarch and patriotism is getting higher and higher in the narratives of literati in past dynasties. Since the Han Dynasty, people believe that the Dragon Boat Festival began in Qu Yuan.

During the stalemate of the Anti-Japanese War (1942), Guo Moruo's historical drama Qu Yuan used the past as a mirror to arouse the patriotic enthusiasm of the general public and made Qu Yuan's patriotic image deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. From 65438 to 0954, Qu Yuan was included in the list of world cultural celebrities.

Song Ying believes that the Dragon Boat Festival was not originally to commemorate Qu Yuan, but in the process of development, it gradually became closely linked with Qu Yuan and patriotism and became an intangible cultural heritage of mankind.

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The origin of several names of Dragon Boat Festival;

1, Japanese-Chinese Festival

The name of the festival in the sky comes from the number of yin and yang. Tian Rucheng's Travel Notes on the West Lake (volume) is a classic "Pleasure" in the 20th Ming Dynasty: "The Dragon Boat Festival is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival because the sun reaches its highest point at noon and swims at noon".

2. Duanyang Festival

The afternoon is "Yang Chen", and the first afternoon in the afternoon is called Duanyang. Chronicle of Jingchu said: Because the sun is in midsummer when it is on the mountain, May is in midsummer, and its first afternoon is a fine day when it is on the mountain, it is called Duanyang Festival.

3. Mid-Autumn Festival

In ancient times, heavenly stems and earthly branches was the carrier, and the times were universal in heavenly stems and earthly branches. At first, the Dragon Boat Festival was the noon day of the calendar, with the first month as the first month, the fifth month as the noon month, and the noon day as the heavy noon. In the Han Dynasty, due to the unification of North and South and the change of calendar, the court decided to change the Dragon Boat Festival to the fifth day of the fifth lunar month to facilitate the festival.

4. Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon boat race was originally a form of ancestor worship by ancient Vietnamese. Boats and boats are widely used in South Vietnam, and dragons are often painted on the bow and stern as their totems or protectors. Dragon Boat Festival is an important activity of Dragon Boat Festival, which is very popular in southern China, especially in Guangdong.

5. During the flood season.

In some rural areas of Shanghai, near the north bank of Hangzhou Bay, such as Fengxian and Nanhui, it is customary to call the Dragon Boat Festival "five o'clock in the flood season". There are also some areas called "noon in May".

6. Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon is the primitive belief of Yue people in ancient times, which originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena. The oriental black dragon stays for seven nights, starting from the east in spring, starting from the south in summer, retreating to the west in autumn and disappearing to the north in winter. On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the black dragon rises to the south of the sky, which is the day of Dragon Xiang, so it is called Dragon Boat Festival.

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